Are cities large enough to have suburbs enviro-neutral i? Carrol
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:pen-l- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Naiman > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 7:10 AM > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: [Pen-l] Are "suburbs" roughly enviro-neutral if you don't drive? > > Suburbs, justifiably, have a bad rap from an environmental point of view. > > But suppose you managed to live in a suburb without ever using a car, > and without anyone in your household ever using a car. Suppose that > you work, shop, and socialize without ever using any mode of > transportation besides walking, bicycle, or public transportation. > Suppose that you live close enough to the city that the environmental > costs of bringing goods to the stores where you buy them are not much > greater than for bringing them to stores in the city. Can we say that > your environmental footprint is broadly speaking not much worse than > if you lived in the city? Roughly how much of the story of the > environmental harm of suburbs is directly attributable to personal > driving? > > > -- > Robert Naiman > Policy Director > Just Foreign Policy > www.justforeignpolicy.org > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
